Bradford Morrow
The Prague Sonata
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Twining music history with the political tumults of the 20th century,The Prague Sonatais a sophisticated, engrossing intellectual mystery.-The Wall Street Journal Music and war, war and music-these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, a novel more than a dozen years in the making.In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript-the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens-come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert…
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Twining music history with the political tumults of the 20th century,The Prague Sonatais a sophisticated, engrossing intellectual mystery.-The Wall Street Journal Music and war, war and music-these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, a novel more than a dozen years in the making.In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript-the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens-come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic eighteenth-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is commanding, hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition of a master. But there is no indication of who the composer might be. The gift comes with the request that Meta attempt to find the manuscript's true owner-a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since they were forced apart by the Second World War-and to make the three-part sonata whole again. Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvorák and Kafka, Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata and uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives, even as it becomes clear that she isn't the only one after the music's secrets.Magisterially evoking decades of Prague's tragic and triumphant history, from the First World War through the soaring days of the Velvet Revolution, and moving from postwar London to the heartland of immigrant America,The Prague Sonatais both epic and intimate, evoking the ways in which individual notes of love and sacrifice become part of the celebratory symphony of life.An astonishing writer.-Joyce Carol OatesA treasure of a novel, a deliciously enveloping musical mystery.-Diane AckermanAn enthralling epic quest of a novel...Regular doses of surprise and suspense keep us immersed and involved...Compulsively enjoyable.?Minneapolis StarTribune
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-8923-3
- EAN: 9780802189233
- Produktnummer: 22479340
- Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'864 KB
Über den Autor
Bradford Morrow (b. 1951) is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, editor, and author of children's books. He grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively before settling in New York and launching the renowned literary journal Conjunctions. His novel The Almanac Branch was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and for Trinity Fields, Morrow was the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Academy Award in Literature. He has garnered numerous other accolades for his fiction, including O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. Morrow is a professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College.
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